Spy-ware refers to any program running in the background of your computer that steals your information and sends it out the Internet. If you were to open your task manager and look at your process’s you will notice there are a lot of programs running that you didn’t open, this does not mean all of them are spy-ware but it is possible that a fraction of them are. Have you ever gotten those random pop-ups even when you aren’t surfing the Web? That is from spy-ware.

There are programs that you can use to find and erase spy-ware from your computer. The best free anti spy-ware program on the net is Ad-ware. You can get Ad-ware by clicking on the link provided below. When you click the link it will take you to the Lavasoft website, there you will see another link that says “Download now”, that link will take you to Download.com and there you can download your free copy of Ad-ware.

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